NASA has some big announcements to make on Monday to the world. A 'mystery' that has been solved.

What could it be? I am so hyped!

Maybe they found life! Finally!

Maybe water!

Maybe something else? Like the Stoneshedge formation seen on Mars?

its thats New Horizons detected a giant 15km long blue-glowing alien contraption encased in ice orbiting Pluto, and they have moved up their scheduling of a manned trip to mars so we can more quickly acquire knowledge on element-zero based technology from the archives located beneath its surface..

in all honesty though, could be anything really.. while I am sure it will be something of substantial scientific interest, i doubt its anything that will be "world changing" so to speak..

I figure it'll be something like "is Charon's interior differentiated or uniform?".

I've read speculations about finding water in some form.

Maybe they discovered intelligent life on Earth.

It'll be something that will make us nerds jump up and down and the rest of the world saying "wut?"

You would have to redefine "intelligent".

Wouldn't it be crazy if it was a working FTL drive and production will go ahead full force on production of a ship. That would blow my freaking mind. In a good way.

I'm pretty sure it will be something really lame. The hardcoe stuff they will never revealed to the masses because of the fear of changing the paradigm; because science is, unfortunately, as corrupt as other institutions - a lot of politics, power, control, and special interests runs in their authority.

It always is when it's nerds speaking. I mean how many non-TES fans give a damn that Redguard and Battlespire were released on GoG? Likewise, it may be a "mystery" about the gravitational wobble of some third rate Jovian moon or some shiny blot on Saturn that nobody else would care about.

It's a god-awful small affair...

Weren't the Chinese going to try and land something on the dark side on the moon? Maybe they couldn't find it in the dark and missed..

..and now NASA is going to raspberry them.

Or that the rover found donuts on Mars, proving that Krispy Kreme really is everywhere.

-which I really hope, because then screw this dirt ball, I'm going to Mars!

Woo-Hoo!!!

Say hello to the Coyote for me.

Hey, I do care about shiny blots on Saturn!

I can't believe you understood my grammar. ^^ I fixed it now.

I have a strange feeling it will be bad news like they will no longer be funded and that they will now have to do a pledge drive to get funding. The only way to know the news is by pledging to donate.

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-mars-mystery-solved

The Georgia Tech person http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/05/how-an-undergrad-spotted-possible-water-on-mars/ which was a mystery at the time... so wonder what the announcement could possibly be about...

I tried to make a Mars reference but nobody would get on board.

It's gotta be donuts!

Hot diggity!! Mars, here I come!

Is there nothing doughnuts can't do .

On a more serious note (aside from the obvious donut related awesomeness if they are found on Mars), the Mars rover probably dug up some fossilized microbes, proving life exist(ed) outside of just earth.

Or living microbes, and now it has Martian cooties.

-in which case I'd rather not see it return home.

The Traveler.

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They likely will announce microbial life on Mars but another scenario is evidence of flowing water. (?!?)

Well it probably won't be able to hurt us anyway. Not having evolved with to use us as carriers.

Guys, guys it's been leaked! By a disgruntled NASA employee. This is just so http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/katsfm.com/files/2012/08/Monolith-on-Mars2.jpg